Sure the color combo of red and blue is commonly associated with 3D, but I still don’t understand why the Virtual Boy game boxes have it (it should be a red and black border, because the Virtual Boy has no blue!)
…and how could anyone have thought a game with a red/black border would be a Game Boy game?
Then again, I’ve heard people on the internet call the DS a “Game Boy DS” and someone refer to the Wii as “that Game Boy *name* brought over and plugged into the TV to create an in-game character that looks like me (a Mii)” and then I’ve heard some people on a shopping channel talk about a Television they were trying to sell and they said “its got ports (A/V) that you could plug a Game Boy into”
That special Red/Black Gameboy with a bigger box – a… 2-D console for a 3-D world?
If she is always around you when you are on Planet Virtual Boy and/or looks at your VB collection often, she might be a “gunpeiyokoifan”! :thumpup:
…You don’t have to call her that, I was just being silly since I’m a girl and the cat is a girl, so… the name would work
If she was a boy, I’d immediately say Chalvo (or Wario…)
That reminds me of a commercial I once saw (I can’t remember what toilet brand it was but there was this guy that was flushing loads of stuff down the toilet, like toilet paper, dry pet food, etc.)
Anime-style vaguely-pokemon-ish explanation: the Bacharu Boi feel most comfortable in their home country in which their cheerful creator Yokoi-sama invented them in, thus demanding to have their home countries’ versions of their games boxarts to be much more fun!
Real explanation: I don’t know
VirtualJockey wrote:
gunpeiyokoifan wrote:
Sorry that I’m bringing a topic back from the dead, but I finally donated (1 Euro, but it counts, right?) :thumpup:Of course it counts! It counts for every member that donates.
Please PM me your paypal address and I will gift the 1 Euro back to you. This applies to all donors until 12/31/2011!![]()
I didn’t mean “does it count for your offer?” I meant “does it count as helping?”
By the way, you don’t need to give me the money back (thanks anyways)
I like toilets that function
(by the way, speaking of toilets, one time there was this guy who came to fix a very stuck toilet and before he even figured out what it was he accused me of putting toys in the toilet… (of course, it wasn’t that) >:( )
Sorry that I’m bringing a topic back from the dead, but I finally donated (1 Euro, but it counts, right?) :thumpup:
I’m amazed by the footage of Yokoi-san! there is only two other videos I know of that have this: the “Invasion of Nintendo” Nintendo Power promo video and Grooveraider’s video where he encountered Yokoi at E3 1995
The best part is its an interview! the other two videos only were small sightings of Yokoi!
I can’t wait for the translation, if it happens…
morintari wrote:
morintari here, I am not talking about an emulator but a way to play Wii games on the virtual boy
Hedgetrimmer is right, you can’t play a 2011 (or 2007, 2008, 2009 or 2010) Wii game (or any game after 1995 for that matter) on a 1995 game console
If you want to play a game Virtual Boy-like that isn’t normally like that, you could take a SNES and a Super Gameboy and set the game colors to red and black (I’ve done this before)
Recently, a Virtual Boy emulator was released for the Wii: http://www.planetvb.com/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=4318&forum=1
VirtualJockey wrote:
It’s a coupon on the box. When you peel off the green $1-Off Duracell coupon, the white bottom portion remains. (Similar to manufacturers coupons you commonly see on groceries)
For other sticker variants, the New VB units you could buy from blockbuster had a yellow triangular sticker over the “Mario’s Tennis inside” that says:
RENT IT!
$9.99
[size=medium]Includes Hardware
[size=medium]System Rental
[size=medium]and 2 Games
[size=small]For 3 Evenings!
[size=xx-small]ASK FOR DETAILS
[size=xx-small]AT CHECKOUT
If its a coupon, why did someone take off the green part if my Virtual Boy was supposedly “never used”? they wouldn’t need batteries for a console they never used and never were going to use! (plus, I thought you had to send off the Duracell offer paper slip inside the box to get the offer! the Duracell offer paper slip was included with my Virtual Boy)
also, I never saw or knew about that Blockbuster sticker
Alfissta wrote:
I love the VB Mexican stuff !! . I have four Mexican games so why we couldn’t tick in our collection profile this option? . I think Mexican games are more official than Performance or Blockbuster stuff .Que chido!!![]()
So… once I collect all of the US and Japan VB games… I got to get the Mexican “versions” of VB games too?
Theres also a Canadian Virtual Boy, which is pretty much the same as the US Virtual Boy, but with a different Duracell sticker on the box (its an orange sticker, from what I remember) and I think there was a French language instruction manual added
also, speaking of stickers, US Virtual Boys have two different box variants; one with a white Duracell offer sticker and one with a green Duracell offer sticker! mine has a white sticker
and… I’m not sure about this, but Virtual Boy auctions with the white sticker box are less likely to have “unit has screen problems” from what I’ve seen, which makes me think that the white sticker box Virtual Boys are later units (which mean the ribbon cables are slightly less aged) I also think that because my Virtual Boy (which has a white sticker on the box) has a high serial number and I think that the KB Toys sticker on it says “$29.99” (I can’t really tell because someone used a pen to scribble over the price) which would mean it was around the time the VB was ending due to bad sales
*end of sticker theory here*
This can happen even if said Virtual Boy is hardly used and/or handled carefully
This seems to me that this is the common ribbon cable problem; you can do either the oven trick or the solder fix to make the scan lines go away
VirtualJockey wrote:
dentaku wrote:
Mother 3Nihongo ga wakarimasen.
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Watashi mo
I never thought someone would want to create a scam Virtual Bowling auction…
Its strange how its not the cart… and how it makes it to the warning screen but not to the game (I have never heard of a Virtual Boy doing this)
I hope this will be an easy fix for you
Its always something wonderful to hear of someone who got a Virtual Boy during 1995 or 1996… and kept it!
Anyways, it sounds like you have the common ribbon cable problem to me (so this will require either the oven fix or the permanent solder fix to get it working again)
Off topic, but I’m curious: are you the same person I once talked to on Twitter awhile ago who had the same username as your username here?
Sorry I have no information about those who made Insmouse no Yakata
At least the Virtual Boy was invented by the same guy who brought us the Gulf War-proof Gameboy… or that Virtual Boy would have been toast!
This probably should have been posted in the Virtual Boy Development Board and not Main Virtual Boy Discussion… (but I don’t know exactly, as I’m not an admin or moderator of any form)